In your new book 12 Rules For Life, you’re very critical of Frozen. Why do you call it “deeply propagandistic”?
It attempted to write a modern fable that was a counter-narrative to a classic story like, let’s say, Sleeping Beauty — but with no understanding whatsoever of the underlying archetypal dynamics. You could say that Sleeping Beauty was raised out of her unconsciousness via a delivering male. Another way of reading the story is that unconsciousness requires active consciousness as an antidote. And the unconsciousness is symbolized in that particular story by femininity and active consciousness by masculinity. I could hardly sit through Frozen. There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

Not just a lovely story about sisterhood?
No, not just a lovely story about sisterhood. No, ‘fraid not. No, you don’t spend tens of millions of dollars on a carefully crafted narrative that’s just a lovely story unless that’s what you’re trying to tell. That isn’t what the people who made Frozen were trying to tell. Not in my estimation.

You regard it as more propagandistic than say, The Little Mermaid?
Those other movies are based on folktales that are maybe — some of those folktales have been traced back 13,000 years.

Aren’t we allowed to make up new stories?
Not for political reasons.

No, you don’t spend tens of millions of dollars on a carefully crafted narrative that’s just a lovely story unless that’s what you’re trying to tell.

Who is he and why do I care?

Who is he and why do I care?

He's an idiot who happens to be correct about one important topic which gave him notoriety.

I suppose it's more lucrative than being a 'thought leader' on the CFMB?

Meanwhile, our own sinicalypse stalked a teenage girl and wrote a whole concept album about it and didn't see a dime for his troubles.

he was great before he delved into marketing himself as a knight against SJW's. now he's a hard twitter follow. not that i necessarily disagree with all his points all the time but because its just like, really, this is what you want to be known for? but i imagine the money is there so can't really blame him.

Who is he and why do I care?

That's the problem with getting your income from a tip jar. If only academia had developed a means by which its members could do their work without being at the mercy of their customers.

Jordan Peterson as tough guy in a bar in Mt. Greenwood: yeah I almost kicked this guy's ass but I didn't and also the guy was a baby

YouTube as a thought leader of the alt-right.

Jordan Peterson as tough guy in a bar in Mt. Greenwood: yeah I almost kicked this guy's ass but I didn't and also the guy was a baby

You think Jordan Peterson has nothing to do with the nascent right-wing youth movement?

You think Jordan Peterson has nothing to do with the nascent right-wing youth movement?